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“Leadership is all about the decisions that change. If you can’t handle that, don’t become a leader”. This was Tony Blair’s reflection in his memoir A Journey on a series of incidents that characterised his second term in government. Perhaps the one that was most perilous for him was the decision to push for universities to be able to charge top-up fees to students. One problem Mr Blair faced was that his conviction that universities needed to be part financed in this way was in contradiction to a commitment in Labour’s 2001 manifesto.